Saccolabium quisumbingii - a little sweetie

[Dorsetman]

I wonder how many growers know this little sweetie ? Flowers less than 1/2 inch across , but usually two spikes, often three, sometimes twice a year , and on a sunny morning, they can fill my ( fairly large - 35 foot long) greenhouse with perfume.
The perhaps strange name ( it is to English ears, anyway ! ) comes from the name of the Spanish (?) Consul - Baron Quisumbing , in Manila (?) in the days when new orchids were being discovered all over the world by collectors sent out by the "great" English orchid firms. In particular Sanders Orchids. The Baron is said to have been very helpful in enabling the collectors to get to the other islands in the Phillipines - I guess there were no commercial ferries back then - about 1870 or thereabouts - thus enabling Vanda sanderiana ( amongst other lovely things) to be discovered and stripped away from the wild. I have mixed feelings about that. I'm so glad to have these lovely orchids in my collection - just wish they were still there in the wild, to go and see- too... but you can't have it both ways ( an old English Proverb). Anyway, the Baron got to have this sweetie named after him.
Its vaguely vandaceous, leafspan about 6 inches, grows in a hanging basket, previously in fine bark, now in moss in an attempt to get new growths as well as flowers. Most of these vandaceous smaller things will do that, if you are very clever , or if you are told how to do it ( can anyone tell me in this case ? I'd love to know !